VMWare Consultant - Wilton, CT - Georgia IT Inc.
Wilton, CT
About the Job
Job Title: VMWare Consultant
Location: Wilton, CT
Position Type: Fulltime
US Citizen/ GC and GC EAD
Job Description
Qualifications:
Location: Wilton, CT
Position Type: Fulltime
US Citizen/ GC and GC EAD
Job Description
- Platform Seeking an ESX/VMWare Systems Admin (SysAdmin) who will be a second level support.
- Candidates should have in-depth, hands-on experience with VSphere (5.5+) as well as common technologies used in a VMWare environment such as Site Recovery Manager and the vRealize suite. Broad knowledge of Storage (Vmax, PURE), Networking, Hardware (UCS, Dell) and Windows/RHEL and the supporting services.
- Additionally, they should be familiar with scripting, i.e. PowerShell or Python A~¢a^‚¬a^€œ not just running manual commands off a KB A~¢a^‚¬a^€œ and able to run, maintain, and write basic scripts. Experience with Chef, Ansible, and/ or AWS is a plus.
- The position is for an operational (run) group.
- SysAdmins will respond to incidents and as well as handle support requests for a variety of technologies related to our Windows service.
- As a queue owner, SysAdmins will be responsible for the general health of the queue (resolving tickets, identifying trends, finding the technical cause of problems) as well as recommending and implementing process/ system changes to eliminate incoming workload, optimizing team process, diagnosing problems to the root cause and resolving them, and escalating where appropriate.
- SysAdmins will also have project responsibilities (i.e. executing some of the improvements identified by them or others on the team) and will own small projects within their respective area.
- The position is for a primary day shift (8-10 hours per day).
- Participation in a team 24x7 weekly rotation is part of the role.
- More extended off-shift time may be needed but these would be planned significantly in advance, and generally associated with project work where maintenance windows need to be observed.
- This is not a low level position.
- The person will need a deep understanding of their respective area.
- But this is also a hands-on operations position.
- Engineers that only want to do projects and/or design and architect solutions will not be happy with this role.
- While not a hard requirement, given the overall direction of IT infrastructure is to transition workloads to the cloud, experience with AWS and cloud development is a plus.
Qualifications:
- Break/Fix, Provisioning & Decom, Patching, Migrations, Documentation Analyzing, troubleshooting and resolving system OS, software, and performance issues At least 5+ years of experience in relevant technologies.
- Hands on knowledge of ESX/VMWare environment Must be able to work well in an ambiguous and changing environment Core Skills/Technologies VSphere 5.5+ including Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Networking, Storage (VMAX, PURE), Hardware (UCS, Dell) Windows and RHEL server lifecycles along with supporting services (AD, DHCP, DNS, etc) Additional Skills/ Technologies: Chef, Ansible , AWS
Source : Georgia IT Inc.